Love Conquers All!
June 8th, 2010
What better way to celebrate an engagement then spending a night on the water performing race committee duties with one’s fiancée? That’s what our romantically inclined Commodore was thinking, as he loaded marks, flags, course placards, foie gras, champagne, and iPhone speakers into the Zodiac. Jason’s intended was perhaps less content with the evening plan, but after setting the course and starting the first race, Maureen quickly became enamoured with the soft warm breeze and breath-taking views, as the first strains of ‘Stairway to Heaven’ wafted out over the gentle ripples of Caddy Bay.
Just as the two oblivious young lovers were sipping champagne from flutes held by their tremblingly entwined arms, the slap-slap-slapping of an approaching scow startled them out of their rapture. Turning downwind to see what manner of cads would interrupt such idyllic bliss, they had no time to react before Gary and Rob ploughed their gleaming, dart-like Fireball straight into the committee boat, spilling foie gras all over the score sheet! Apologies were immediately forthcoming of course, but no explanation was given for the collision, despite low winds and a complete absence of other boats in the vicinity.
To this day, the strange event goes unexplained, joining many other similar tales in the files of … Captain Hook!
